Just a correction to my example here: On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 07:25:48AM -0700, Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> was heard to say: > $ mkdir foo > $ echo > --test > $ rsync --test foo > rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.cc(1440) [client=3.0.6] > $ rsync -- test foo Obviously that should be "rsync -- --test foo". > $ ls foo > --test Daniel